estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
The US government has announced a $62.5 million plan to hire biologists to help 32 threatened and endangered species currently listed under the Endangered Species Act. https://www.fws.gov/press-release/2023-05/625m-endangered-species-recovery-planning
"[T]here were creative writing teachers long before there were creative writing courses, and they were called and continue to be called *editors*."--Kurt Vonnegut, in 1999 https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/books/052499vonnegut-writing.html
Lawmakers in Ghana have passed a bill that prohibits the naming, accusing, or labelling of another person as a witch, with offenders facing up to five years in jail if found guilty. 'It's going to bring about a serious mind shift, correct a lot of ills in our society and I'm confident that we are building a better society for ourselves.' https://www.trtafrika.com/africa/ghanas-mps-pass-bill-criminalising-witchcraft-accusation-14238700
“The magic of a paper airplane is that all of these little flight corrections are happening continuously throughout its flight.” https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/drones/a44112898/history-of-paper-airplanes/
It's A Wonderful Life -- if it were directed by Martin Scorsese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRf_RN7Dkww#t=73
Scientists observed some flies embarking on a spinning platform voluntarily and repeatedly, suggesting the animals may find the movement appealing for some reason. https://www.science.org/content/article/fruit-flies-may-enjoy-taking-carousels-spin
Honestly, I hadn't known that there were more books in the Lord Darcy series. And this one is great.
Not familiar with it? Think: "Sherlock Holmes in a world with magic." https://amzn.to/45i7unm
In celebration of weather reporting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1uaw3WIOlc
Do I happen to know anyone who's been personally involved in a corporate Center of Excellence? If that's you, let me know. I might take referrals. (This is for an article.)
The future of the computer... circa 1986.
I had SO much fun writing that story.
Twitter has now removed all media posted before 2014. Thats - so far - almost a decade of pictures and videos from the early 2000s removed from the service. https://twitter.com/tomcoates/status/1692922211416334597
The Lunar Codex, a collection of 30,000 works of art, literature, film and music, is currently being digitized on memory cards and NanoFiche, and will soon be headed to the moon. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/01/lunar-codex-30000-digitised-works-of-human-creativity-to-be-put-on-moon
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The Gallery of Physical Visualizations is a chronological gallery of physical visualisations and related artefacts https://flashbak.com/8000-years-of-visualising-data-from-mesopotamian-clay-tokens-to-461697/
The Mechanical Turk quickly became a symbol of technological innovation and sparked the same heated debates we’re having right now about the nature of artificial intelligence, the limits of human ingenuity, and the possibility of constructing a machine capable of replicating human thought. https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/05/25/how-a-mechanical-chess-playing-turk-gave-birth-to-the-ai-debate-250-years-ago/
McDonald’s locations in mainland China are currently selling an exclusive Tetris handheld in the shape of a chicken nugget. https://retrododo.com/mcdonalds-tetris-handheld/
Yiddish authors like Sholem Aleichem and Y.L. Peretz strove to create a national literature. Shund stories, on the other hand, were written to make a profit, veering into the sensational and melodramatic — tales of romance, adventure, anything that would sell. https://forward.com/fast-forward/557976/thousands-of-yiddish-pulp-fiction-stories-finally-seeing-the-light-of-day/
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017